Changming Huang

Tunable subwavelength photonic lattices and solitons in periodically patterned graphene monolayer

We study linear and nonlinear mode properties in a periodically patterned graphene sheet. We demonstrate that a subwavelength one-dimensional photonic lattice can be defined across the graphene monolayer, with its modulation depth and correspondingly the associated photonic band structures being controlled rapidly, by an external gate voltage. We find the existences of graphene lattice solitons at the deep-subwavelength scales in both dimensions, thanks to the combination of graphene intrinsic self-focusing nonlinearity and the graphene plasmonic confinement effects.

PT symmetry in optics beyond the paraxial approximation

The concept of the PT symmetry, originating from the quantum field theory, has been intensively investigated in optics, stimulated by the similarity between the Schrödinger equation and the paraxial wave equation governing the propagation of light in guiding structures. We go beyond the paraxial approximation and demonstrate, solving the full set of the Maxwells equations for the light propagation in deeply subwavelength waveguides and periodic lattices with balanced gain and loss, that the PT symmetry may stay unbroken in this setting. Moreover, the PT symmetry in subwavelength guiding structures may be restored after being initially broken upon the increase of gain and loss. Critical gain/loss levels, at which the breakup and subsequent restoration of the PT symmetry occur, strongly depend on the scale of the structure.

Solitary vortices supported by localized parametric gain

We demonstrate the existence and stability of bright vortex solitons sustained by a ring-shaped parametric gain, for both focusing and defocusing Kerr nonlinearities in lossy optical media. With the defocusing nonlinearity, the vortices are stable at all values of the detuning parameter, while under the focusing nonlinearity their stability region is limited to some positive values of the detuning. Unstable vortices in the focusing medium transform into stable rotating azimuthons.

Mode pairs inPT-symmetric multimode waveguides

We study mode properties in multimode optical waveguides with parity-time(

Solitons supported by localized parametric gain

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Localization-delocalization wavepacket transition in Pythagorean aperiodic potentials.

) symmetry. We find that two guiding modes with successive orders 2\emph{m}-1 and 2\emph{m} form a mode pair in the sense that the two components of the pair evolve into the same mode when the loss and gain coefficient increases to some critical values, and they experience

Tunneling inhibition for subwavelength light.

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Generation of Subwavelength Plasmonic Nanovortices via Helically Corrugated Metallic Nanowires.

symmetry breaking simultaneously. For waveguides that in their conservative limit support an odd number of guiding modes, a new mode with a proper order emerges upon the increase of the gain/loss level, so that it pairs with the already existing highest-order mode and then break their

Diffraction control of subwavelength structured light beams in Kapitza media.

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Watching pythagorean numbers: Localization-delocalization transition in two-dimensional aperiodic potentials

symmetry simultaneously. Depending on the specific realizations of